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stop making excuses for Apple's dumb decisions. With physical buttons I can find a key by feel just by running my fingers across the top row. Good luck accurate

by ux-app 9y ago

stop making excuses for Apple's dumb decisions. With physical buttons I can find a key by feel just by running my fingers across the top row. Good luck accurately hitting any button on that stupid little touch screen.

millstone 9y ago
The touch bar finally forced me to remap Caps Lock to Escape. It's much easier to hit on my computer (just don't ask me to use yours).
- bonesss 9y ago
  Personally I map caps to control because it makes all my text navigation easier (ctrl + a, ctrl + e, ctrl + shift + enter, etc). Plus side: less RSI-feelings in my left wrist. Down side: muscle memory makes you look incompetent on other machines.
threeseed 9y ago
The Escape key is always in the same position (top left). I always hit it with 100% accuracy just like I did on my previous MacBook. And I am not making excuses for Apple. I think they should've made Escape key in particular a physical key.
- kalleboo 9y ago
  No right now in the top left corner of my touchbar is an (X) key, the esc key is to the right of it.
  - FabHK 9y ago
    My understanding is that even though by default there is some (inexplicable) space left of the escape key on the touchbar, that space still functions as the escape key.
    - kalleboo 9y ago
      In my case I actually had a completely separate, non-esc button to the left of esc. Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/InvBvqa.png https://i.imgur.com/InvBvqa.png I'm not sure exactly when it happens, but I think it happens when you have some background context open on the touchbar (like some app's music controls). The X dismisses the bar you have open and then you get esc back. Often there's no esc at all and just the X.
      - FabHK 9y ago
        That sounds terrible. Dismiss the window before you can escape??
- megaman22 9y ago
  Or, you know, use the keyboard layout that everyone has become accustomed to, instead of coming up with a special-snowflake input device that is a gimmick. These new Macbooks are the Wii U's of laptops.
dang 9y ago
> stop making excuses for Apple's dumb decisions. This breaks the HN guidelines by being uncivil as well as uncharitable in the sense requested here: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize." Your comment would be fine without that first bit. Would you mind reading https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and following the guidelines when commenting here?
- ggus 9y ago
  still it adds that small something to the comment. we humans adapt to things, we try to make excuses for our (and our friend's) errors. we try to come up with solutions. that unpolite remark underlines the issue pretty well: one one side there is a solution, on the other side there is a poor implemented idea
  - dang 9y ago
    Sure, but the unpoliteness was gratuitous and damages the container. You can drive to an interesting place without scratching the car.

by ux-app 9y ago

millstone 9y ago

The touch bar finally forced me to remap Caps Lock to Escape. It's much easier to hit on my computer (just don't ask me to use yours).

bonesss 9y ago
Personally I map caps to control because it makes all my text navigation easier (ctrl + a, ctrl + e, ctrl + shift + enter, etc). Plus side: less RSI-feelings in my left wrist. Down side: muscle memory makes you look incompetent on other machines.

threeseed 9y ago

The Escape key is always in the same position (top left). I always hit it with 100% accuracy just like I did on my previous MacBook. And I am not making excuses for Apple. I think they should've made Escape key in particular a physical key.

kalleboo 9y ago
No right now in the top left corner of my touchbar is an (X) key, the esc key is to the right of it.
- FabHK 9y ago
  My understanding is that even though by default there is some (inexplicable) space left of the escape key on the touchbar, that space still functions as the escape key.
  - kalleboo 9y ago
    In my case I actually had a completely separate, non-esc button to the left of esc. Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/InvBvqa.png https://i.imgur.com/InvBvqa.png I'm not sure exactly when it happens, but I think it happens when you have some background context open on the touchbar (like some app's music controls). The X dismisses the bar you have open and then you get esc back. Often there's no esc at all and just the X.
    - FabHK 9y ago
      That sounds terrible. Dismiss the window before you can escape??
megaman22 9y ago
Or, you know, use the keyboard layout that everyone has become accustomed to, instead of coming up with a special-snowflake input device that is a gimmick. These new Macbooks are the Wii U's of laptops.

dang 9y ago

> stop making excuses for Apple's dumb decisions. This breaks the HN guidelines by being uncivil as well as uncharitable in the sense requested here: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize." Your comment would be fine without that first bit. Would you mind reading https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and following the guidelines when commenting here?

ggus 9y ago
still it adds that small something to the comment. we humans adapt to things, we try to make excuses for our (and our friend's) errors. we try to come up with solutions. that unpolite remark underlines the issue pretty well: one one side there is a solution, on the other side there is a poor implemented idea
- dang 9y ago
  Sure, but the unpoliteness was gratuitous and damages the container. You can drive to an interesting place without scratching the car.